The Dalai Lama on homosexuality

Question: With homosexuality... Is that, is that, how is that treated by Tibetan Buddhism?

Dalai Lama: ...if the practitioner is sexual, it is not prohibited. But sexual includes homosexual also, and...

Interpreter: ... oral sex...

Dalai Lama: ... and the other hole. These, you see, even with one's own wife, of both sex is considered sexual misconduct. Then another category, no believer, no believer. I think, basically, the purpose of sex is reproduction. So in order to fulfill that purpose, man to man, women to women cannot fulfill-- so a little bit...

Interpreter: ... could be considered unnatural.

Dalai Lama: But at the same time, there are people, among men, among women, see. Again, I think we discussed before, the sexual desire is generally related to the body, the physical body. So then, under those circumstances if you stop, or try to stop, it may create more violent consequences. Then at least sexual misconduct...

Question: So even as a Tibetan Buddhist lay person, not a monk, it's better to avoid these things?

Dalai Lama: Better. [speaks to interpreter]

Interpreter: He says that amongst the Tibetans perhaps it is unheard of that sex.

Source: http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/1997/8/27-2_5.html